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ATTU RN EYE Patented Oct. 15, 1946 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BABYCARRIER Frederick D. Wood, Jacksonville, Fla.

Application October 9, 1944, Serial No. 557,828

2 Claims. 1

My present invention, in its broad aspect, has to do with improvementsin devices for carrying children or infants, and more particularly, itis my purpose to provide a device of thi character, which has asupporting seat for the child or infant, which is designed to supportthe child in a position facing the carrier or facing away from thecarrier, and which has an adjustable supporting strap or sling designedto suspend the seat from the shoulder of the carrier, and a body restpart, or pad, to comfortably engage the body of the carrier to steadythe seat against the body.

Other advantages and objects of my invention may be briefly defined asfollows: (1) to sustain the entire load from the houlders of the.carrier rather than from the arms, it being merely necessary with mydevice to use one arm to go about the child to steady it; (2), toprovide a device which is comfortable both for the child and thecarrier; (3), to provide means for adjusting the device to differentsizes of persons; and (4), to provide a simple, sturdy, structure whichmay be manufactured and sold at small cost, and which may be easily keptin a clean and sanitary condition.

Other equally important object and advantages of my invention will beapparent from the following detailed description taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawings, but changes in size, shape, form,construction, arrangement and correlation of part may be made, providedthey fall within the purview of my broad inventive concept and the scopeof the appended claims.

In the drawings, wherein I have illustrated a preferred form of myinvention:

Figure 1 is a view of the same in use;

Figure 2 is a perspective view of my device;

Figure 3 is a front elevation;

Figure 4 is a plan view, with the supporting strap or sling in section,and taken on the line d4 of Figure 3, and

Figure 5 is a vertical section taken on the line 5-5 of Figure 3.

In the drawings wherein like characters of reference are used todesignate like or similar parts:

The numeral l designates a seat which may be formed of hard wood,plastic, or any other suitable material, and which is elongated and hasends 2 curved toward each other as shown in Figure 4 with roundedcorners 3. Since it is contemplated that a child will occupy the seat,as shown in Figure 1, either facing toward the carrier, or mother, oraway from the carrier with its legs hanging over the sides of the seat,I provide curved leg depressions d and 5 in each side edge of the seat,and between leg depressions 4, the seat is somewhat extended and squaredoff as at 6 to mount a body rest part or pad or block I which is curvedto fit comfortably against a persons side and extends above and belowthe seat. The block 1 is rabbeted as at 8--see Figure 5--to receive thesquared 01f edge 9 of the seat as shown in Figures 4 and 5. All cornersand edges of both the block or pad and the seat are beveled and roundedas at H].

Attached to the bottom of the seat and extending up about the ends 2 arethe relatively wide end ll of a strap or sling E2. The edges of the endsconverge upwardly as at It toward the shoulder length It of the strap orsling, and the length of the strap or sling is adjustable through theinstrumentality of a buckle [5 or other adjusting means. The strap maybe formed of webbing or other suitable material, and in operation, thechild may be supported facing the carrier, as in Figure 1, or facingaway from the carrier, and all the weight is sustained by the shoulderof the carrier. It is necessary to use only one arm, and that forguarding or steadying the child.

It is believed that the operation and advantages of my invention will beapparent from the foregoing, but interpretation of the scope thereofshould only be conclusive when made in the light of the subjoinedclaims.

I claim:

1. An infant supporting device, comprising an elongated seat, the endsof which are curved toward each other, spaced leg depressions at eachside of the seat, an adjustable shoulder strap attached to the seat atits ends, and a curved block secured at its transverse medial line atone side of the seat to support the same from the body of the carrier.

2. An infant carrying device, comprising an elongated seat havingbeveled edges and ends curved toward each other, and spaced curved legdepressions in each side of the seat, a curved body engaging blocksecured at its transverse medial line on one side of the seat, and anadjustable shoulder strap having relatively wide end portions attachedto the seat at its ends.

FREDERICK D. WOOD.

